This paper presents the results of an empirical study suggesting that, while laughter is a very good indicator of amusement, the kind of laughter (unvoiced laughter vs.voiced laug...
—We present a novel approach to direct and control virtual crowds using navigation fields. Our method guides one or more agents towards desired goals based on guidance fields. ...
Sachin Patil, Jur P. van den Berg, Sean Curtis, Mi...
We study the forward and backward substitution phases of a sparse multifrontal factorization. These phases are often neglected in papers on sparse direct factorization but, in man...
Patrick Amestoy, Iain S. Duff, Abdou Guermouche, T...
Using model checking to verify that interaction protocols have given properties is widely recognized as an important issue in multiagent systems where autonomous and heterogeneous ...
Embedded systems serve an emerging and diverse set of applications. As a result, more computational and storage capabilities are added to accommodate ever more demanding applicati...